National Affairs: Tke CORRUPTION ISSUE: A Pandora's Box

WHILE the presidential campaign was still in its infancy,
Democrats Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson decided to blow the lid off
the issue of corruption in government. "Racketeers," cried Truman in
describing the members of the Eisenhower Administration for the
edification of fellow Democrats at the Chicago convention. Far from
disavowing Harry's reckless wording, Nominee Stevenson last week
charged that a "contagion of Republican misconduct and corruption . . .
has marked the Eisenhower Administration from start to finish."

Republicans cheerfully accepted the challenge to debate the issue of
evil in government operation. In cold fury, Dwight Eisenhower replied
to Truman and...